The labor leaders saw failure to absorb immigrants as a moral bankruptcy that was much worse than financial bankruptcy.
After the war, a new neighborhood was built, as well as a ma'abara to absorb new immigrants.
Israel did not want the refugees to return because it desperately needed their land and villages to absorb Jewish immigrants.
The Histadrut was not only set up to provide the services to its members and to absorb new immigrants.
They can no longer absorb unlimited immigrants since there is no longer the space and resources available.
Some "no más" natives complain that the country can't absorb immigrants the way it once could.
But he argued that if Israel needed to absorb immigrants and build its military power, "it also needs expressions of culture and civilization."
It was intended to absorb immigrants to Israel from Egypt.
During the 1970s the kibbutz absorbed several immigrants from the United Kingdom.
It has absorbed several immigrants from South America.